Jerry retired from Marathon Pipeline in 2008 and his wife, Karen, is a retired registered Nurse. They now own Blackhawk Engineering, Inc. "We are blessed to have our three children and seven grandchildren all withing 3 miles". They have three children, Melissa (46), Patti (43) and Steve (41). Their seven grandchildren are Brady (23), Jakob (15), Keeghan (14), Myah (14), Jasmyn (13), Sam (12) and Jett (7)."We travel a bit and babysitting is always an option."